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Duquesne Dukes football
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The team competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision and is a member of the Northeast Conference. The Dukes have won or shared 15 conference championships in the past 22 years, the team plays its home games at the 2, 200-seat Arthur J. Rooney Athletic Field in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Dukes are coached by Jerry Schmitt, the Dukes started play in 1891 and have had a continuous program since 1969. They were Northeast Conference co-champions in 2011 and 2013 and undisputed champions in 2015, previously, Duquesne football was a member of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, winning or sharing 11 conference titles. Duquesne was the ECAC Bowl champions and NCAA Division I FCS Mid-Major National Champions in 2003, the team was the 1995 ECAC Bowl Champions, as well. The Dukes had some success before NCAA college footballs alignment into divisions, Duquesne won the 1934 Festival of Palms Bowl and 1937 Orange Bowl. In 1941, Duquesne finished the season undefeated and untied, earning a No.8 Associated Press ranking while leading the nation in scoring defense, rushing defense, former head coach Elmer Layden is credited with devising the system of hand signals that officials use today. The signal system was put to use for the first time on November 11,1928, Layden was also the first coach to use two sets of uniform jerseys for home and away contests. In 1929, graduate student manager John Holohan conceived the idea of Pittsburghs first night game at Forbes Field, on the evening of November 1 that year, the Dukes made history by defeating Geneva College, 27-7, in front of more than 27,000 spectators. This led to the Duquesne Football teams nickname the Night Riders, at the club level, Duquesne won the 1973 National Club Football Association national championship at Three Rivers Stadium and was runner-up in 1977. The Dukes football team boasts the greatest all-time intraconference winning streak in NCAA Division I FCS history with 39 straight wins in the MAAC. The 39-game streak also ties for the second-longest intraconference winning streak in NCAA Division I Football history, five games shy of the all-time record

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Duquesne University
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Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit is a private Catholic university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. In 1911, the became the first Catholic university in Pennsylvania. It is the only Spiritan institution of education in the world. Duquesne has since expanded to over 10,000 graduate and undergraduate students within a self-contained 49-acre hilltop campus in Pittsburghs Bluff neighborhood, the school maintains an associate campus in Rome and encompasses ten schools of study. The university hosts international students more than 80 countries although most students — about 80% — are from Pennsylvania or the surrounding region. Duquesne is considered a university with high research activity institution by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. There are more than 79,000 living alumni of the university including two cardinals and the current bishop of Pittsburgh, the Duquesne Dukes compete in NCAA Division I. Duquesne mens basketball appeared twice in national games in the 1950s. The Pittsburgh Catholic College of the Holy Ghost was founded on October 1,1878 by Fr, Joseph Strub and the Holy Ghost Fathers, who had been expelled from Germany during Otto von Bismarcks Kulturkampf six years earlier. When the college was founded, it had six faculty members and 40 students, the college obtained its state charter in 1882. Students attended classes in a space above a bakery on Wylie Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh. Duquesne established itself at its current location on the Bluff and built the original red brick Old Main in 1885. At the time, it was the highest point on the Pittsburgh skyline, on May 27,1911, under the leadership of Fr. Martin Hehir, the College became the first Catholic institution of learning in Pennsylvania to become a university. The year 1913 saw the university record its first woman graduate, in 1914, the graduate school was established. The 1920s were a time of expansion for the developing university, the campus grew to include its first single-purpose academic building, Canevin Hall, as well as a gymnasium and a central heating plant. Institutionally, the school grew to include the School of Pharmacy in 1925, a School of Music in 1926, and a School of Education in 1929. In 1928 the university celebrated its anniversary and was able to rejoice in the fact that it was now both financially solvent and enrollment had reached an all-time high

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Pittsburgh
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Pittsburgh is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States, and is the county seat of Allegheny County. The city proper has a population of 304,391. The metropolitan population of 2,353,045 is the largest in both the Ohio Valley and Appalachia, the second-largest in Pennsylvania, and the 26th-largest in the U. S. The city features 30 skyscrapers, two inclines, a fortification and the Point State Park at the confluence of the rivers. Aside from steel, Pittsburgh has led in manufacturing of aluminum, glass, shipbuilding, petroleum, foods, sports, transportation, computing, autos, and electronics. For part of the 20th century, Pittsburgh was behind only New York and Chicago in corporate headquarters employment, Americas 1980s deindustrialization laid off area blue-collar workers and thousands of downtown white-collar workers when the longtime Pittsburgh-based world headquarters moved out. The area has served also as the federal agency headquarters for cyber defense, software engineering, robotics, energy research. The area is home to 68 colleges and universities, including research and development leaders Carnegie Mellon University, the region is a hub for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, sustainable energy, and energy extraction. Pittsburgh was named in 1758 by General John Forbes, in honor of British statesman William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham. The current pronunciation, which is unusual in English speaking countries, is almost certainly a result of a printing error in some copies of the City Charter of March 18,1816. The error was repeated commonly enough throughout the rest of the 19th century that the pronunciation was lost. After a public campaign the original spelling was restored by the United States Board on Geographic Names in 1911. The area of the Ohio headwaters was long inhabited by the Shawnee, the first known European to enter the region was the French explorer/trader Robert de La Salle from Quebec during his 1669 expedition down the Ohio River. European pioneers, primarily Dutch, followed in the early 18th century, Michael Bezallion was the first to describe the forks of the Ohio in a 1717 manuscript, and later that year European fur traders established area posts and settlements. In 1749, French soldiers from Quebec launched an expedition to the forks to unite Canada with French Louisiana via the rivers, during 1753–54, the British hastily built Fort Prince George before a larger French force drove them off. The French built Fort Duquesne based on LaSalles 1669 claims, the French and Indian War, the North American front of the Seven Years War, began with the future Pittsburgh as its center. British General Edward Braddock was dispatched with Major George Washington as his aide to take Fort Duquesne, the British and colonial force were defeated at Braddocks Field. General John Forbes finally took the forks in 1758, Forbes began construction on Fort Pitt, named after William Pitt the Elder while the settlement was named Pittsborough

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Arthur J. Rooney Athletic Field
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Arthur J. Rooney Athletic Field is a 2, 200-seat multi-purpose facility in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Situated on the campus of Duquesne University, it is the field of the Duquesne Dukes football, soccer. Its location atop the Bluff in the center of Duquesnes campus makes Rooney Field one of the most unusual football facilities in the nation, Rooney Field has enjoyed the national spotlight as the host of three televised games. On Monday, October 31,1994, ESPN2 televised Duquesnes 16–12 win over Iona College to a national audience. In addition, two games in 1995 — the MAAC Championship-deciding game versus St. Johns and the ECAC Bowl game vs. Wagner — were aired locally on what was then the e Sports Network. The 1993 completion of Rooney Field enabled the Dukes to play football on campus for the first time since 1929, a 6-foot excavation transformed what was once a faculty and staff parking lot into the centerpiece of Duquesne Universitys urban campus. The space limitations inherent to the universitys 49-acre plot required that Rooney Field be one of the few in college football that run east to west. The Beard Press Box, a three-tier structure funded by a contribution from the Eugene Beard family, was completed in the summer of 1995, the field itself is named for Duquesne alumnus and founder of the Pittsburgh Steelers, Art Rooney. In addition to serving as home for the Duquesne mens and womens soccer and lacrosse teams, various camps, team practices, and intramural activities keep the field in constant use. Bolstered by the first half of a $4 million renovation completed in 2009, part of the recently completed renovation is permanent grandstand seating on Bluff Street, which replaces temporary bleachers that had been installed for 14 football seasons. Permanent concession stands and restrooms have also added to the south side of the field. The Academic Walk sideline has also gained additional seating, Field house construction began following the 2008–2009 athletics season and was finished in the summer of 2011. Rooney Field - Duquesne University Department of Athletic

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2012 Duquesne Dukes football team
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The 2012 Duquesne Dukes Devils football team represented Duquesne University in the 2012 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by eighth year head coach Jerry Schmitt and played their games at Arthur J. Rooney Athletic Field. They are a member of the Northeast Conference and they finished the season 5–6, 3–5 in NEC play to finish in a tie for sixth place

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2013 Duquesne Dukes football team
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The 2013 Duquesne Dukes Devils football team represented Duquesne University in the 2013 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by ninth year head coach Jerry Schmitt and played their games at Arthur J. Rooney Athletic Field. They were a member of the Northeast Conference and they finished the season 7–4, 4–2 in NEC play to share the conference title with Sacred Heart. Due to their loss to Sacred Heart, they did not receive the automatic playoff bid and did not receive an at-large bid

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2014 Duquesne Dukes football team
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The 2014 Duquesne Dukes Devils football team represented Duquesne University in the 2014 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by tenth head coach Jerry Schmitt and played their home games at Arthur J. Rooney Athletic Field. They were a member of the Northeast Conference, 2–4 in NEC play to finish in fifth place

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2015 Duquesne Dukes football team
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The 2015 Duquesne Dukes Devils football team represented Duquesne University in the 2015 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by 11th-year head coach Jerry Schmitt and played their games at Arthur J. Rooney Athletic Field. They were a member of the Northeast Conference and they finished the season 8–4, 5–1 in NEC play to win the NEC championship. They received the NECs automatic bid to the FCS playoffs where they lost in the first round to William & Mary